Hi Bethany:   We do the same thing and the acronyms are a problem.     I don’t like it either.    I inherited this system and I would change it if I could, but we  have 4 floors of journal stacks which are packed, so I can’t justify the hours and labor it would take to shift.     With more and more online and less browsing in the stacks, I haven’t had any problems lately with people being unable to find things like JAMA (which is shelved as though it is spelled J A M A, not JAMA).   Users just need to learn the custom.   If you can rearrange without too much trouble, I would.

 

Shirley Rais, MLS  —  Chair, Resource Management & Acquisitions Dept.

Library Liaison to the School of Public Health
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY | University Libraries

11072 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, California 92350
office (909) 558-4583 ·  fax (909) 558-4919 ·   srais@llu.edu

 

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Goodwin, Bethany
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Subject: [SERIALST] Filing Print Journals Alphabetically

 

Greetings,

 

We order our print journals alphabetically word by word. I'm new enough to librarianship that I only recently discovered there was a term for it (http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet27). When I first started working with serials I was taught to put the journal titles with acronyms at the beginning of the letter and never thought much about it until one of our staff working with students complained they couldn't find a journal (AETEI Journal). I was then asked if we could reshelve them alphabetically "like people would think."

 

For those libraries who still own print journals and file alphabetically, do you file word by word (acronyms to the front) or letter by letter?

 

Thanks!

Bethany

 

Bethany Goodwin 

Electronic Resources Supervisor

Rolfing Memorial Library | Trinity International University

2065 Half Day Road, Deerfield, IL 60015

bjgoodwin@tiu.edu | 847-317-4006

 

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